The first table below looks at the demand for Software Engineering skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Engineering over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Engineering
Rank 55 46 34
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 28 45 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 3.353% 4.813% 6.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.494% 6.032% 8.315%
Number of salaries quoted 28 43 36
Average salary £32,250 £37,500 £28,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.00% +32.74%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,250 £64,500 £38,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
623 746 445
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 74.61% 79.79% 72.59%
Number of salaries quoted 566 693 408
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Engineering
Hampshire

Software Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Southampton Software Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Southampton region.

Southampton Software Engineering Salary Trend

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Engineering across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Southampton Software Engineering Salary Histogram

Software Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing Software Engineering also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Software Engineering.

1 28 (56.00%) Degree
2 23 (46.00%) C
3 20 (40.00%) Java
4 19 (38.00%) SQL Server
5 18 (36.00%) .NET
5 18 (36.00%) C++
6 17 (34.00%) XML
7 16 (32.00%) UNIX
7 16 (32.00%) JavaScript
7 16 (32.00%) SQL
8 15 (30.00%) HTML
9 14 (28.00%) Computer Science
10 13 (26.00%) Spring
10 13 (26.00%) PHP
10 13 (26.00%) Oracle
10 13 (26.00%) J2EE
11 12 (24.00%) PL/SQL
11 12 (24.00%) Web Services
11 12 (24.00%) Tomcat
11 12 (24.00%) Oracle 8/8i
11 12 (24.00%) MS Excel
11 12 (24.00%) Client/Server
11 12 (24.00%) Eclipse
11 12 (24.00%) Broadband
11 12 (24.00%) Ajax
12 10 (20.00%) Embedded C
12 10 (20.00%) C#
13 9 (18.00%) Linux
14 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
15 7 (14.00%) Windows

Software Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing Software Engineering also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Software Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (36.00%) .NET
2 17 (34.00%) XML
3 15 (30.00%) HTML
4 13 (26.00%) J2EE
4 13 (26.00%) Spring
5 12 (24.00%) Ajax
5 12 (24.00%) Web Services
6 5 (10.00%) Middleware
7 3 (6.000%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (6.000%) POSIX
7 3 (6.000%) OpenGL
7 3 (6.000%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.000%) CSS
7 3 (6.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 2 (4.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (4.000%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.000%) WPF
9 1 (2.000%) Qt
9 1 (2.000%) soapUI
9 1 (2.000%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 12 (24.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.000%) Mathematica
3 1 (2.000%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (2.000%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (24.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Broadband
2 5 (10.00%) ATM
3 3 (6.000%) DVB
4 2 (4.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (24.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (4.000%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.000%) Big Data
4 1 (2.000%) MySQL
4 1 (2.000%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.000%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.000%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.000%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (6.000%) LabVIEW
2 3 (6.000%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.000%) JUnit
3 1 (2.000%) HttpUnit
3 1 (2.000%) FitNesse
3 1 (2.000%) TestNG
General
1 6 (12.00%) Electronics
2 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.000%) Automotive
4 1 (2.000%) Advertising
4 1 (2.000%) Military
4 1 (2.000%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Software Engineer
2 22 (44.00%) Developer
3 12 (24.00%) Java Developer
4 9 (18.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Graduate
6 7 (14.00%) Software Developer
7 6 (12.00%) Test Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 5 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (10.00%) C# Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Systems Test Engineer
9 4 (8.000%) Embedded C Software Engineer
9 4 (8.000%) Embedded C Engineer
9 4 (8.000%) C Software Engineer
9 4 (8.000%) C++ Developer
9 4 (8.000%) Junior
9 4 (8.000%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (8.000%) Junior Developer
10 3 (6.000%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (24.00%) Client/Server
3 7 (14.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (10.00%) Physics
4 5 (10.00%) Firmware
5 3 (6.000%) DTV
5 3 (6.000%) STB
6 2 (4.000%) Statistics
6 2 (4.000%) GPGPU
6 2 (4.000%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (2.000%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.000%) Open Source
7 1 (2.000%) Robotics
7 1 (2.000%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.00%) UNIX
2 9 (18.00%) Linux
3 7 (14.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (12.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 5 (10.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 5 (10.00%) Signal Processing
2 5 (10.00%) MVC
2 5 (10.00%) Validation
2 5 (10.00%) UML
2 5 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (8.000%) Scrum
3 4 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (6.000%) System Testing
4 3 (6.000%) TDD
4 3 (6.000%) Regression Testing
4 3 (6.000%) Software Architecture
5 2 (4.000%) Project Management
5 2 (4.000%) RUP
5 2 (4.000%) OOD
5 2 (4.000%) Data Management
5 2 (4.000%) Software Testing
5 2 (4.000%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (4.000%) ICONIX
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) C
2 20 (40.00%) Java
3 18 (36.00%) C++
4 16 (32.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (32.00%) SQL
5 13 (26.00%) PHP
6 12 (24.00%) PL/SQL
7 10 (20.00%) C#
7 10 (20.00%) Embedded C
8 5 (10.00%) MATLAB
9 3 (6.000%) Perl
9 3 (6.000%) Python
10 2 (4.000%) Ruby
10 2 (4.000%) Embedded C++
11 1 (2.000%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 28 (56.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.000%) PhD
3 2 (4.000%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.000%) Chartered Engineer
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.000%) Google
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